Flageolet meaning

flăj'ə-lĕt', -lā'
A small flutelike instrument with a cylindrical mouthpiece, four finger holes, and two thumbholes.
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A small fipple flute, similar to a recorder.
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A variety of kidney bean, cultivated for its seed.
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The pale-green, immature seed, used esp. in French cooking.
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(music) A type of small flute.
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A type of kidney bean, common in France.
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Origin of flageolet

  • French diminutive of Old French flajol flute from Vulgar Latin flābeolum possibly alteration of Latin flābellum diminutive of flābrum gust of wind from flāre to blow bhlē- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From French flageolet.
    From Wiktionary

Flageolet Sentence Examples

  • Day, Descriptive Catalogue of Musical Instruments (London, 1891), pp. 18 -22 and p1.4; also Complete Instructions for the Double Flageolet (London, 1825); and The Preceptor, or a Key to the Double Flageolet (London, 1815).

  • She also gave birth to Ayacanora by Birdcatcher, and to Araucaria by Ambrose, both very valuable brood mares, Araucaria being the dam of Chamant by Mortemer, and of Rayon d'Or by Flageolet, son of Plutus by Touchstone.

  • On the lid there is a man playing a flageolet outside a cottage.

  • flageolet bean salad In a perfect world I would make this with dried beans that I have soaked overnight.

  • With bean sources throughout the world, Balducci's offers exotic, hard-to-find types like adzuki, Chana Dal, flageolet and whole mung beans as well as more common green lentils, cannellini and pinto beans.

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